The Disaffected Lib: South America Backs Ecuador on Assange Asylum

By The Mound of Sound, on August 20, 2012, at 12:59 pm

This takes everything to a whole new level.   The 12-foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations have joined in support of a resolution backing Ecuador in granting asylum to Julian Assange and calling for a negotiated settlement.

“We reiterate the right of states to grant political and diplomatic asylum,” the bloc’s joint statement read.

Ministers at the UNASUR meeting …were also critical of Britain’s role in the diplomatic conflict, expressing “solidarity with and support for the government of Ecuador in the face of threats against its embassy in Britain.”

Oh my, my.  It’s curious

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Bill Longstaff: The Monroe Doctrine is dead

By Bill Longstaff, on April 18, 2012, at 3:06 pm

A new age has dawned in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine, a policy established by the United States ostensibly to keep European imperialists out of the Western Hemisphere but which eventually deteriorated into an instrument to maintain American dominance, is now effectively deceased. At the recent Summit of the Americas, the Latin nations couldn’t have made it clearer that they intend to be

 
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